New iPad to be Called 'iPad HD' and Not 'iPad 3'?

[swarmster]

Apple doesn't do this, it's the developers that add the 'HD' moniker to their iPad apps.

Right, Apple's never encouraged developer double-dipping with two different versions of the same app (that's what Universal apps are for). But I look forward to Rovio triple-dipping with Angry Birds HD HD later this month, just $19.99!

Seriously, though, I don't really like the HD name. If anything it undersells the device? HD is so closely associated with 1080p these days, and this is way better than that.

 

[kiljoy616]

Steve Jobs would not approve of that name...

No he would not approve of it. It sound like something stupid scheme Microsoft would come up with.

 

[Scott6666]

Might as well be HD because other than the retina display, it doesn't seem like it will be that different from the iPad2.

Unless we get a quad core, or 128GB storage, or more RAM the new iPad seems like a yawn to me.

4G to eat up the battery faster, to pay ATT more, and to hit their unlimited cap faster doesn't strike me as interesting at the moment.

Hard to see how a display is going to get me to spend $800 to upgrade from my iPad 2.

 

[gadget123]

iPad HD would out too much focus on the screen and people with the iPad 2 may not upgrade.

Has to be iPad 3.

 

[sekazi]

To me HD always stand for 720p and 1080p.
EHD is 1440p.
UHD is 4k and 8k.

2048x1536 does not fit in any of those categories.

 

[apps1991]

So I guess the next iPad will be the iPad HD not the iPad 3. What is the point in that ?

 

[YeahBuddy]

Makes me wonder about future iPad releases though, will there be an iPad HD 2, ect.?

I like the idea of $399 baseline for a 16GB wifi only "iPad" and $499 baseline for 16GB wifi only "iPad HD" that gets updated every year.

 

[tdream]

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I hope not. HD is such a 2009 term. So far nothing's confirmed. I think Apple would know better than adding the HD tag to their next iPad

Exactly I doubt Apple want to give HD more credence that it already has and help promote all the other companies using HD terminology.

 

[jontech]

I prefer Samsung's naming conventions better thats why I am holding out for the Samsung Galaxy HD SIII 9.7" MAX LTE 4G Epic

I read it's going to be an iPad killer!

 

[darko00]

Worst looking invitations

All I have to say I could care less if its called iPad 3 or iPad 2s or iPad hd or iPad da ****.. All I have to say this is by far the worst looking invitation apple sent out.. The picture and text seem like somebody did it to fool us.. You can already tell Jobs isn't around. He would make sure even the damn image that goes out with the invitation is awesome...

 

[Agent-P]

Honestly I wish Apple would just follow the same pattern they do with the MacBooks in naming their iPad and iPhone line. Just like the computers are just the MacBook Air or MacBook Pro (not MacBook Air 2 or MacBook Pro 3), they should just stick with iPad and iPhone. After a while they're gonna have to drop the numbers eventually. Might as well do it early since both devices are widely used and easily recognised.

 

[Steveo13]

Thats stupid, they didn't call the iPhone 4 "iPhone HD" because of the retina display.

 

[tremlock]

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I say go for iPad touch , this way everyone is confused.

 

[isoMorpheus]

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet."

So iPad would, were it not iPad HD called!

 

[NAG]

C|Net is so accurate!

 

[CalWizrd]

iPad HD sounds fine to me... except I suspect a fair amount of user confusion with all of the already existing apps with the HD suffix. Is it for the iPad rather than the iPhone, or is it for the iPad HD vs. the iPad 1 or 2? Hmm...

 

[nexsta]

Who really think Apple would call it that way, like Samsung and Acer and every other company do, should really call himself a first class apple noobie! Cheers to the person who created this news!

 

[JOHNGAETANO]

3 is unlucky in Asian countries... Thus no 3. Pure and simple. There was never a Palm 3 either, just the 4.

 

[dejo]

But Apple already designates "HD" for iPhone apps modified for iPad.

They do? I thought that was just a common practice and not something Apple specifically recommends.

 

[RowellE]

For some weird reason, I'd like it more if it was called iPad 3.

But then again, iPad HD does/will sound better than iPad 4 when that comes out. Because between iPad 3 and iPad 4, the 4 sounds like the better one to get. But when you have iPad HD against iPad 4, HD sounds better.

*first post!*

 

[Patrick J]

3 is unlucky in Asian countries... Thus no 3. Pure and simple. There was never a Palm 3 either, just the 4.

No iPhone 3 either, only 3G or 3GS.

 

[pugnaciousp]

I prefer Samsung's naming conventions better thats why I am holding out for the Samsung Galaxy HD SIII 9.7" MAX LTE 4G Epic

I read it's going to be an iPad killer!

Oh man. I thought that was a phone!

 

[chrislayton]

"iPad HD" make people confused because people will think this sort look like...

1st generation = iPad
2nd generation = iPad HD
3rd generation = iPad 2

 

[nagromme]

Seems reasonable. Apple has sold two iPad generations, four iPod Touch generations, and five iPhone generations. Of those 11 product generations, ONLY TWO have been named by their version number!

All the iPod Touch generations have kept the same name (ditto for MacBook Air, iMac, and many other Apple products).

The original iPad and iPhone had no version number, the iPhone 3G was the second iPhone (named for a wireless standard!) and the two “S” models were named for speed, tacked onto the previous name.

That’s 9 iOS models named for something other than their version number. Only the iPhone 4 and iPad 2 have been named for their version number.

So the numbers are not a pattern. (Nor is the “S”... out of 11 iOS products, not counting Apple TV, only two have used the “S” naming system so far. The convention makes sense, but I’d hardly use it to predict anything.)

It makes a lot of sense.
Apple won't want to keep naming their products by numbers, what if they get to something like the iPad 14. Just sounds silly.

Very true, however, after that comes the iPad 15... Mmmmmm... iPad 15. I want one.

 

[lilcosco08]

The name doesn't matter. The specs do.